Chapter 1098: Reencountering Langhuan

“Divine King.”

Qin Mu calmed down. Lan Yu’s ability to summon void beasts must have come from the summoning method taught to her by the primordial spirit, Luo Xiao. Qin Mu’s reverse summoning technique was also derived from Luo Xiao’s methods. At the time he designed the reverse summoning altar, he did not hide it from Luo Xiao. More crucially, Qin Mu had left a summoning altar in the Ancestral Court! This meant that if Luo Xiao had taught Lan Yu the reverse summoning, she could potentially use this altar to enter the Ancestral Court!

Gu Xiao, the reincarnated form of the ancient Celestial Emperor, had once said that there was a great terror in the Ancestral Court. Qin Mu wasn’t sure if he was referring to the void beasts scattered everywhere or something else entirely. However, if the void beasts in the Ancestral Court were to escape…

He couldn’t help but shiver, a chill running down his spine as he recalled the countless void beast eggs in the nineteenth void. If the Ancestral Court’s seal were opened, connecting its void with the outside void, countless void beast eggs would fall from the nineteenth void into various worlds, surely leading to an apocalyptic disaster! The brain of all void beasts was the void mother beast, and the void mother beast’s master was Grand Emperor! If Divine King Lan Yu truly opened the Ancestral Court’s seal, Grand Emperor would control all the void beasts, devouring heavens and worlds one by one!

“Lan Yu, have you been to the Ancestral Court?” Qin Mu asked.

Divine King Lan Yu’s gaze was profound as it settled on him. She shook her head. “I haven’t. Without your detailed spatiotemporal coordinates, I lack the power to enter. Holy Infant, you’ve been gone for ten years; you must know the exact location of the Ancestral Court now, right? Tell me, and I’ll summon the void mother beast.” She said softly, “With the void mother beast, the Celestial Heavens will be nothing to fear or worry about, and the Creator race can return to its former glorious era!”

Qin Mu shook his head. “The void mother beast belongs to Grand Emperor. Grand Emperor relies on void beasts to enter and massacre in the Great Void. Lan Yu, if you still consider me the Holy Infant of the Creators, send this void beast back. Do not, under any circumstances, touch such terrifying creatures!”

Lan Yu smiled, her form drifting up to the massive eye of the giant void beast, floating there like a tiny speck of dust. She shook her head. “Holy Infant, you are, after all, not a Creator. To us Creators, one who subdues and tames void beasts is a hero among our kind. You don’t have that perspective.”

Qin Mu stepped forward, saying gravely, “All void beasts obey the mother beast; they haven’t truly been tamed by you! The mother beast’s controller is Grand Emperor. You are merely paving the way for Grand Emperor, only benefiting him, and bringing no advantage whatsoever to you or the Creator race!”

Suddenly, the giant void beast’s eyelid lifted, revealing an immense maw, and its form paused before vanishing from behind Lan Yu! The next moment, it appeared before Qin Mu, Yan’er, and the others, its bloody maw wide open, intending to swallow them whole! Yan’er was startled and about to resist, but Qin Mu’s vertical eye between his brows opened, conjuring countless sharp, crisscrossing spikes! These spikes appeared inside the void beast. The void beast quickly dematerialized, and the spikes conjured by Qin Mu’s divine consciousness also dematerialized. When the void beast rematerialized, the spikes materialized with it. The void beast screamed incessantly, its body riddled with holes and dripping with blood.

“Holy Infant, although you are not a Creator, you have fully mastered the Creators’ techniques.” Divine King Lan Yu waved her hand, and the spikes inside the void beast vanished. She said, “Divine consciousness visualization is the means to combat void beasts. You can deal with void beasts, and Creators can naturally deal with them with ease. These ancient behemoths pose no harm to us; instead, they will become weapons for our race. Even if Grand Emperor controls the mother beast, he cannot threaten us.”

The void beast closed its mouth, its large eyes fixed on Qin Mu, its tail tucked in, showing timidity as it hid behind Divine King Lan Yu. Before Qin Mu could say more, Divine King Lan Yu and the void beast had already vanished into the void. Her divine consciousness transmitted: “Holy Infant, this was just an experiment. I will summon more void beasts, but rest assured, I am not doing this to fight you. Instead, I will lead these void beasts to the Great Void and confront the Celestial Heavens there!” As she and the void beast disappeared, her divine consciousness gradually weakened: “This way, I can buy you time to grow, isn’t that a win-win situation?”

“I’m worried about you,” Qin Mu whispered, facing the cold wind from high above. “Grand Emperor has always wanted to open the Ancestral Court. If the evil within the Ancestral Court is released, it will be a catastrophe for the current world. And before that, he will eliminate you…”

He led Long Qilin and the others towards Eternal Peace. Before returning to the Celestial Heavens to see Heavenly Master Bai Yuqiong, he needed to repair the Heavenly Dragon Imperial Chariot. This chariot had been damaged twice, once in the Western Extreme Heaven, and needed to be repaired again to quickly reach the Celestial Heavens. Yan’er was still a bit plump, and her flight speed couldn’t match the Heavenly Dragon Imperial Chariot. Moreover, before returning to the Celestial Heavens, he also needed to take care of some matters in Eternal Peace.

“As for Heavenly Master Bai Yuqiong, if she doesn’t wish to die, then I can only break the Infernal Heavenly Son’s divine art at its source.” Qin Mu pondered that to break the Infernal Heavenly Son’s divine art at its source, he needed to understand the detailed structure of the Netherworld Heaven Gate. Empress Di Yiyue had a Netherworld Heaven Gate. If he could find Sister Di Yiyue, the secrets of the Infernal Heavenly Son’s divine art would no longer be a mystery! His eyes flickered. Ever since the Eternal Peace Catastrophe erupted, Empress Di Yiyue and others had vanished without a trace, not appearing on the lands of the Primordial Realm. Empress Di Yiyue, Tian Shu, Emperor Shitian King Buddha, and others had not gone to Carefree Village, and Saint Woodcutter was also nowhere to be found. “Could they be hiding in Fengdu? And where is Fengdu now? Perhaps Eternal Peace would know Fengdu’s whereabouts.”

As he was pondering, suddenly, the ground undulated like waves. Qin Mu stopped, only to see soil churning around them, trees growing frantically, and vines twisting like dragons, expanding at an incredibly fast rate! In just a few breaths, the vegetation transformed as if centuries had passed, turning into a dense, primeval jungle. If one were to look from the outside, they would see that the scenic area where Qin Mu and his companions had stood had become a green dome, over a hundred li in circumference, inverted and sealing off the area completely, making it airtight!

“Ten years, ten years…” A mournful voice came from the dense thicket, vines rustling like the bodies of massive pythons among the thick trees. The voice was like a tearful lament, sending shivers down their spines. “Heavenly Venerable Mu, you promised this Empress a ten-year term to summon my soul and resurrect me. You are already two months late!”

Qin Mu and the others descended. In front of them, the ground vibrated and split open, and a gigantic stone coffin slowly rose from beneath the earth. The stone coffin opened, and the High Emperor’s Corpse let out a groan. Corpse energy permeated the air, and it was about to leap out of the coffin to kill!

“Wait!” Qin Mu laughed. “Earth Mother Yuanjun, I’ve returned this time specifically to fulfill my promise and resurrect you. Do you know that I was banished to ancient times, struggled to survive, and only barely made it back alive? It was precisely because I had one belief supporting me: that I must complete my promise to Earth Mother!”

The sharp claws of the High Emperor’s Corpse stopped before him, a foul stench assailing his face. Qin Mu remained unfazed. From among the vines, Earth Mother Yuanjun’s voice came, scoffing, “Are you trying to deceive me again? You are no longer the Grand Master of Ten Thousand Calamities and Undying! Heavenly Venerable Mu, the ancient gods are saying that Heavenly Venerable Huo killed the Southern Emperor, and you couldn’t resurrect her, meaning you are useless to the ancient gods.” Her voice was ethereal and shifting. A green vine, like a venomous snake or a giant python, stretched forward, silently approaching Qin Mu and coiling around him, growing.